Imagine the city of Rome. The one that is the capital of Italy. On Saturday, December 2, 700 thousand supporters of Silvio Berlusconi gather in Piazza San Giovanni. This friend of GDP and current oppositionist gathered so many people only according to minimal estimates. But such a crowd, if you remember, exceeds the number of Napoleon's Great Army, which entered Russia in 1812.

Russia interrupted negotiations at UN headquarters on a draft resolution with sanctions against Iran. Reason: US proposal to put on the agenda of the UN Security Council a discussion of the health of the imprisoned ex-presidential candidate of Belarus Alexander Kozulin.

It would seem to everyone's satisfaction. Sergei Bychkov, who has taken on the role of information killer, evokes sympathy from few people. However, the lawsuit was filed due to the fact that Father Vsevolod called Bychkov “a crazy informer who in the 80s wrote denunciations to the KGB against other spiritual children of Father Alexander (Me)” (the information was not confirmed in court). That is, in essence he behaved exactly the same as the plaintiff he accused.

The situation with the “March of Dissent” is this: we are acting fully in accordance with constitutional law. We believe that to date the authorities have not presented any reasonable legal arguments against holding the march. We received a paper from the Moscow mayor's office, which allows the rally to be held on Triumfalnaya Square.

The Estonian Foreign Ministry sent a diplomatic note to Russia in connection with the protest near the Estonian embassy in Moscow. The “Young Russia” picket on December 11 was directed against the adoption in Estonia of a law banning Soviet symbols and equating them with Nazi symbols.

The information that liberals are running as a “single list” for the upcoming elections to the Legislative Assembly of the Moscow Region in March has not been confirmed. On Tuesday, the leaders of the Union of Right Forces announced that there was no talk of an alliance with the Democratic Party of Russia, and that the single list would be based on Yabloko, Gazeta.ru reports. Belykh suggested “bash to bash” - for this, Yavlinsky’s comrades will join in and support the SPS list in St.

In the Kremlin I am ashamed, Comrade Gaidar! December 13, 2006 Nikolai Svanidze He came to the institute to E.T. Gaidar, talked to him. I am not authorized to retell the contents of our private conversation, but in its main, let’s say, it did not differ from the reperral points from what was recorded for the Mirror program. In other words, in a private format E.T. He did not say anything that would not fundamentally coincide with the declared before the television coat.

Alexander Averin, press secretary of the National Bolshevik Party (NBP), about the NBP action “For the Constitution!”: On December 12, about 40 activists of the National Bolshevik Party blocked the entrance to the State Duma; deputies who could not enter the building gathered at the entrance. The guys stretched out a poster “For the Constitution!” and distributed leaflets with our demands.

Dmitry Kovtun, a witness and victim in the poisoning case of Alexander Litvinenko, claims that he became infected in mid-October, when he met with Litvinenko in London. Let us recall that Kovtun was hospitalized with signs of radiation sickness and the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case for the attempted murder of Dmitry Kovtun.

On December 13, the Organizing Committee of the “March of Dissent” filed an application with the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow in order to protect its constitutional rights to hold a demonstration. ((http://www.ej.ru/dayTheme/entry/5612/ The organizers of the march are confident that the Moscow authorities, in accordance with current legislation, do not have the right to change the format of the declared action)), but can only propose other dates and route for its holding .

From January 1, 2007, the export of Russian oil to Belarus will be subject to duty. The same as for countries that are not members of the Customs Union - it currently amounts to $180 per ton of oil. Currently, duties are not paid at all when exporting oil to Belarus. As Kommersant writes, this decision will deprive the Belarusian budget of at least 1.7 billion dollars a year, and will give Russia 3.6 billion in additional income.